Finovate Debuts: DAVO Aims to Automate Sales Tax the Way ADP Automated Payroll
DAVO debuted DAVO Sales Tax at FinovateFall 2015 in New York. The system works on retailers’ behalf by daily impounding sales tax from the merchant’s point-of-sale system. The Maine-based company then...
View ArticleFinovateEurope Sneak Peek: meetinvest AG
A look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Get your tickets to join us in London! meetinvest AG will present its expert-based and algorithm-driven, single-stock Robo-advisor...
View ArticleFinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Ledger
A look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Get your tickets to join us in London! The Ledger Blue is a personal handled device that secures payments and smart contracts for...
View ArticleMoven to Forgo Username & Password for 80% of Mobile Account Interactions
Mobile-first bank Moven is going the way of Citigroup, Bank of the West, and JP Morgan Chase by not requiring a password for low-risk banking interactions. An American Banker post cited that instead...
View ArticleGusto, Formerly ZenPayroll, Closes on $50 Million Funding
Payroll and benefits provider, Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll), recently closed on $50 million. Specific investors were not disclosed, but the company states that both new and existing investors were...
View ArticleU.K.-Based YoYo Rolling Out Mobile Wallet in U.S.
Mobile payments and loyalty platform, Yoyo, announced its U.S. launch plans today. According to the announcement on TechCrunch, the London-based company has been quietly rolling out with a private...
View ArticleCiright One Purchases Stratos Card
While we were reading yesterday’s news that bluetooth-connected payment card startup Stratos had been forced to shut down because a recent round of funding fell through, another plan for the company’s...
View ArticleLending Club Raises Average Rate 0.25%
After the Fed raised interest rates earlier this month, I received a lot of questions about what effect the move will have on the fintech industry. Yesterday peer-to-peer lending platform, Lending...
View ArticleFinovate Debuts: Urban FT Brings a Social PFM to Prepaid Cardholders
Urban FT has reimagined the traditional banking experience by enabling customers to not only track their spending, but also engage with the purchasing experience. Using the Urban FT platform, prepaid...
View ArticleSoundpays Appoints Steve Doswell as new CEO
Soundpays, a startup whose technology enables customers to make P2P payments using inaudible sound, has appointed a new CEO this week. The Toronto-based startup’s board of directors selected Steve...
View ArticleBackbase’s 2015 Metrics Report Cites 35% YoY Revenue Growth
Digital banking platform provider Backbase released a report today highlighting its 2015 growth: Large financial institution clients: 60+ End customers: 70+ million Languages available: 12 Countries...
View ArticleFinovate Alumni News
On Finovate.com: Soundpays Appoints Steve Doswell as new CEO. Backbase’s 2015 Metrics Report Cites 35% YoY Revenue Growth. FundAmerica Shares Growth Metrics, Plans for 2016. LoanNow Secures $50 Million...
View ArticleSoundpays Appoints Steve Doswell as New CEO
Soundpays, a startup whose technology enables customers to make P2P payments using inaudible sound, has appointed a new CEO this Doswellweek. The Toronto-based startup’s board of directors selected...
View ArticleMoven Launches Offers with Four Merchant Partners
Need another excuse to spend money now that the holiday season is over? Neobank Moven is giving cardholders incentive to use their prepaid cards with a new offers program. The New York-based company...
View ArticleFinDEVr APIntelligence
Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to check out coverage from our recent developer conference in San Francisco. We’re taking the fintech developer tool showcase to New York on March 29...
View ArticleCUneXus Raises $1 Million, Signs Partnership with Edmunds.com
CUneXus, developer of sales and marketing technologies for lenders, raised $1 million in new equity funding from an unnamed strategic partner. Combined with a 2013 seed round, the company’s total...
View ArticleFinovate’s 2015 Best of Show Winners Give Something to Tweet About
2015 was quite a year for the 800+ Finovate alumni. From acquisitions to IPOs, and everything in between, there was plenty to tweet about. Here are the highlights from the 2015 Best of Show winners:...
View ArticleMambu Pulls in $8.7 Million to Replace Core Banking
Mambu, creator of a cloud-based SaaS banking platform, raised $8.7 million (€8 million) this week. Combined with the $1.5 million the company picked up in February 2013, its funding now tops $10.6...
View ArticleFinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Lexmark
A look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Register today. Lexmark’s latest innovation in customer onboarding is a voice-driven, customer experience incorporating mobile...
View ArticleFinovateEurope Sneak Peek: Nostrum Group
A look at the companies demoing live to 1,500 fintech professionals. Register today. Nostrum provides innovative automated loan management software, working across a number of different consumer and...
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